خوف حرمان ازل در کسب لوت ** چون نکردت سست اندر جست و جوت

In (the case of) earning food, how has the fear of eternal (eternally predestined) disappointment not made you feeble in your search?

گویی گرچه خوف حرمان هست پیش ** هست اندر کاهلی این خوف بیش

You will say, “Though the fear of disappointment is before (me), this fear is greater (when I am) in idleness.

هست در کوشش امیدم بیشتر ** دارم اندر کاهلی افزون خطر

(When I am) at work my hope is greater: (when I am) in idleness I have more risk.”

پس چرا در کار دین ای بدگمان ** دامنت می‌گیرد این خوف زیان

Then, O evil-thinking man, why is this fear of loss holding you back in the matter of religion?

یا ندیدی کاهل این بازار ما ** در چه سودند انبیا و اولیا 3100

Or have not you seen in what a gainful trade the people of this bazaar of ours, the prophets and the saints, are (engaged),

زین دکان رفتن چه کانشان رو نمود ** اندرین بازار چون بستند سود

And what mines (of treasure) have appeared to them from this going to the (spiritual) shop, and how they have gotten gain in this market?

آتش آن را رام چون خلخال شد ** بحر آن را رام شد حمال شد

To that one the fire became submissive, like an anklet; to that one the sea became submissive and carried him on its shoulders;

آهن آن را رام شد چون موم شد ** باد آن را بنده و محکوم شد

To that one the iron became submissive and wax-like; to that one the wind became a slave and subject.

بیان آنک رسول علیه السلام فرمود ان لله تعالی اولیاء اخفیاء

Setting forth how the Prophet, on whom be peace, said, “Verily, God most High hath friends who are concealed.”

قوم دیگر سخت پنهان می‌روند ** شهره‌ی خلقان ظاهر کی شوند

Another party go (to and fro) exceedingly hidden: how should they become well-known to the people of externals?

این همه دارند و چشم هیچ کس ** بر نیفتد بر کیاشان یک نفس 3105

They possess all this (spiritual dominion), and (yet) no one's eye falls upon their sovereignty for one moment.